One of my favorite things to paint are mason jars with flowers. The informal containers are elevated by adding beautiful flowers to them so that they can be used on almost any kind of table short of a state dinner. My favorite are the aqua blue ones.The pink and magenta flowers in the painting seem to float off the pucture plane giving it a mystical feeling.
I love to paint zinnias; not only for the shapes but for the colors. The colors go together so well because of the harmonious color scheme chosen. I think a painting is successful when it causes a little thrill when I look at it. One of my favorite David Gray songs has a lyric in it that says” feels like lightning running through my veins”. That is how a painting or good music should make us feel.
This painting was dedicated to my Aunt Willa who left us more than a year agonat the age of 90. She was a smart, beautiful and witty lady. She and my mother grew up in hard times in rural West Tennessee after their father died and struggled but survived to make good lives. They were interested in reading and politics and humor. Willa loved to travel and was always looking for the next thing to do.
i enjoyed painting this 24x30 painting on canvas. It is a meadow with flowers that are based in reality but also in fantasy. It is the kind of painting that was fun to do ; my imagination was able to let go and the flower shapes just took off. The colors complemented each other and seemed to dance across the picture plane.
I gave this painting the title of Electric because of the lighting on the flowers. It seems to sparkle and bounce around to cause movement; certainly not a a still life painting.
